An Australian police officer is under investigation after firing a Taser at a 95-year-old woman with dementia inside a nursing home.
The incident occurred on Wednesday morning at a nursing facility in Cooma, a small town about 250 miles south of Sydney. Two New South Wales police officers responded to a call that an elderly patient, Clare Nowland, had taken a serrated-edge steak knife from the kitchen, according to NSW assistant police commissioner Peter Cotter.
